# What is the Internet, exactly? - Andrew Blum

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Published: 2026-07-22T13:30:00+00:00
Episode link: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/VG5409421025.mp3
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## Resource

When a squirrel chewed through a cable and knocked him offline, journalist Andrew Blum started wondering what the Internet was really made of. So he set out to go see it -- the underwater cables, secret switches and other physical bits that make up the net. Talk by Andrew Blum. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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